Independence Day: Resurgence review: Emmerich's 2016 sequel kills off Will Smith's legacy, wastes Jeff Goldblum and Bill Pullman, and buries its best ideas.
Travelers, Brad Wright's time-travel drama, ran three seasons on Showcase and Netflix. A look at its rules, cast, and why it ended early.
Cloud Atlas at 172 minutes spans six eras and centuries. A review of the Wachowskis' ambitious independent epic, its cast, and what actually holds.
Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone ran 156 episodes on CBS from 1959 to 1964. He wrote 92 of them, hosted all of them, and made the twist a delivery mechanism.
Terminator Genisys review: the 2015 reboot starring Arnold Schwarzenegger resets nothing and resets it badly. Emilia Clarke, Jason Clarke, 3.8 of 10.
Luc Besson self-funded Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets for $180M, the priciest indie film ever. The world-building dazzles; the leads don't.
12 Monkeys ran four seasons on Syfy, adapting the 1995 film and La Jetée. A look at its time-travel loop, cast churn, showrunners, and why it scored 5.7.
Chappie review: Neill Blomkamp's 2015 robot fable has a strong idea and no discipline, wasting a great premise on thin villains and shootouts.
Spielberg's War of the Worlds (2005): Tom Cruise, Dakota Fanning, the Bayonne tripod attack, Tim Robbins' basement, secrecy, box office and legacy.
Annihilation review: Alex Garland sends five women into the Shimmer. A cold, smart horror film that trusts its audience and refuses to explain itself.
Snowpiercer review: Bong Joon Ho's 2013 English-language debut puts humanity on a train that never stops and asks who rides up front. 8.4/10.
Andrew Niccol's In Time has a brilliant sci-fi premise — time as currency — but wastes it on a chase movie. Review: 3.6/10.
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